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swsnr, to Steamdeck
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My laptop screen broke, so I figured I could use my #SteamDeck as replacement. Didn't want to loose Steam OS, though, it's a gaming device after all.

So I bought a SanDisk SD card for 35€, and used #mkosi to flash a #fedora workstation disk image onto it. Took a few days to understand what #fedora packages I need for the full workstation experience, but in the the end the process was surprisingly smooth.

pid_eins,
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@triskelion @swsnr building initrds with mkosi is a thing. And what i'd recommend.

kernellogger, to linux
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Jeremy Allison writes:

'" The data shows that “frozen” vendor kernels, created by branching off a release point and then using a team of engineers to select specific patches to back-port to that branch, are buggier than the upstream “stable” Linux created by Greg Kroah-Hartman. '"

https://ciq.com/blog/why-a-frozen-linux-kernel-isnt-the-safest-choice-for-security/

pid_eins,
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@kernellogger @bluca sure, but then the rule is not "we never break userspace" but more "move fast and break things, and sometimes revert where people protest too loudly".

I mean, that's fine by me, but maybe they should communicate it like that then.

The thing is that removing a widely documented mount option is very obviously a compat breakage. You cannot discount that. It's not just a "mistake" to remove something like that, it's an obvious attempt to break compat.

pid_eins,
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@kernellogger @bluca

Actually, the exact relevant rule is "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE", all in uppercase.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

I find the sound of that mail quite different from your much weaker "let's maybe undo the worst shit if people complain too loudly"... And of course "uh, sometimes we fucked up so hard, we cannot fix it anymore, let's add a new api instead" (which is what happened in the block device capabilities/media change api).

pid_eins,
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@kernellogger @bluca

(again, I actually find it OK if API is broken from time to time, just be honest about it, and communicate properly, and do a bit of research first. Don't claim that uppercase extremism and then do not even superficially follow through)

pid_eins, to random
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1️⃣3️⃣ Here's the 13th installment of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd.

ssh is widely established as the mechanism for controlling Linux systems remotely, both interactively and with automated tools. It not only provides means for secure authentication and communication for a tty/shell, but also does this for file transfers (sftp), and IPC communication (D-Bus or Varlink).

pid_eins,
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@shoragan ssh over rs232, eh?

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